IE vs. Firefox vs. Chrome - Objective Evaluations?

[MysticLlama]

IE9 goes full release on Monday, give it until then. I've been using it at home for a few weeks and it does seem a bit faster, and I haven't had any problems with it. (Not that I really do with IE8)

I pretty much always stick with IE, but that's because I'm also an admin, and need to know how the software that will be there on every machine works, and it's also 100x more centrally managable than the others.

[RWebb]

ok, personal anecdote...

Chrome is very fast, but partly due to it being stripped down -- i.e. no tabs (I gave it up and reverted back to Firefox)

[imcarthur]

Randy

Chrome does use tabs.



And there are a bunch of addons. Here is one that blocks Google, Facebook etc which are all lurking in many pages to gather data.



Ian

[Brando]

FYI, FF can end up being a memory hog.

After being open for about 2 hrs, excesses of 5 tabs open at all times, running FireBug, UserAgentSwitcher, NoScript (cuts down on bloat and page weight), Java, Flash and LinkChecker... I can take up about 336MB of memory (now).

IE with the same single page open for the last 2 hours (no flash, no addons, etc) is up to about 185MB.

[RWebb]

thx - they must have added tabs recently, or maybe it was the sidebar I was thinking of (?)

which brings up another issue -- find one that is usually near the top of the heap so you can avoid switching every few months